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Description

This project consists of writing a perl script which would allow to parse a large number of messy html files with non-standard regular expressions. I have attached a representative html file to give you an idea. I would like to transform the content of the html file into a comma separated file of the following form:

Category 1; Subcategory A; Text of paragraph 1 in Subcategory A
Category 1; Subcategory A; Text of paragraph 2 in Subcategory A
Category 1; Subcategory A; Text of paragraph 3 in Subcategory A

Category 1; Subcategory B; Text of paragraph 1 in Subcategory B
Category 1; Subcategory B; Text of paragraph 2 in Subcategory B

Category 2; Subcategory C; Text of paragraph 2 in Subcategory C
Category 2; Subcategory C; Text of paragraph 2 in Subcategory C

Category 2; Subcategory D; Text of paragraph 1 in Subcategory C


In total there are in between 1 and 12 categories per html page. The number of categories varies for each html page. Furthermore, the amount of subcategories and corresponding paragraphs differs. I have played around with Perl and I have identified some useful regular expressions. However, I am not a programmer and I just don't have the time at the moment to learn perl and code it myself. I think it is a relatively straightforward task for somebody knowing how to program in perl.


Additional files submitted:
example.htm